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  hanseboot - harbour (1)
Hamburg is Germany's premier media city, and so an ideal location for launching new boats.
The spirit, culture and atmosphere of the city are marked by the cosmopolitan character of its citizens and its close ties to water and shipping.
Carry on the conversation with your guests on board and in the hanseboot harbour club in the historical red fireship, the maritime symbol of Hamburg Harbour.
www.hamburg-messe.de /hanseboot/bo_en/hanseboot-hafen01_e.htm   (351 words)

  
  Hamburg Harbour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hamburg Harbour, or the Port of Hamburg, is a deep water port off the North Sea, on the River Elbe in Hamburg, Germany.
Hamburg Harbour is named Germany's "Gateway to the World" and it is the largest sea-port in Germany and - in terms of numbers of containers handled in 2004 - the second-largest in Europe and the ninth-largest worldwide.
During the second half of the 19th century Hamburg developed as Central Europe's main hub for transatlantic passenger and freight travel and from 1871 onward it was Germany's principal port of trade - worlwide.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamburg_Harbour   (358 words)

  
 Hamburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hamburg is situated on the southern tip of Jutland Peninsula, geographically centred (a) between Continental Europe and Scandinavia and (b) between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
Hamburg is the birthplace of Alsterwasser (a reference to the city’s river Alster with two lake-like bodies in the city centre thanks to damming), a type of shandy, a concoction of equal parts of beer and carbonated lemonade (Zitronenlimonade), the lemonade being added to the beer.
Hamburg is thus one of the few locations in the world in which both Sinti and Romany are spoken, and it is also one of the major headquarters of international Roma organizations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hamburg   (3054 words)

  
 Articles - Hamburg Harbour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Port of Hamburg or Hamburg Harbor is a deep water port off the North Sea, on the River Elbe in Hamburg, Germany.
Hamburg Harbor is named Germany´s "Gateway to the World" and it is the largest sea-port in Germany and - in terms of numbers of containers handled in 2004 - the second-largest in Europe and the ninth-largest worldwide.
Hamburg Harbors history is as old as the history of Hamburg.
www.seekj.com /articles/Hamburg_Harbour   (345 words)

  
 Sightseeing in Hamburg - Hafen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Historically one of first harbours originated in the reign of Count Adolf III of Schauenburg at the mouth of the Alster on the river Elbe (Nikolaifleet).
The harbour is currently in the process of a continuous adaptation to the demands of modernization and rationalization.
A prominant landmark of Hamburg is the Köhlbrandbrücke.
www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de /rz3a035/tourist/hafen_english.html   (603 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hamburg is the second-largest (after Berlin), and certainly the most beautiful metropolitan area in Germany.
Hamburg, situated on the Elbe river about 80 miles from the North Sea, originally gained importance as Germany's main gate to the North Atlantic, and still, the Hamburg Harbour is a major attraction.
On Sundays, most of the harbour is shut down, but still the gates to the quais are open - so one can drive (or walk) right into the maze of cranes, containers, terminals, close up to all kinds of ships, and, if lucky, get invited on board for a coffee or a stiff drink.
www.people.cornell.edu /pages/fs31/Frank/hamburg-1.html   (323 words)

  
 Hamburg
Hamburg and Dresden both grace the Elbe River, and both are very important economic centers -- but that is where their similarities end.
Hamburg harbour area is made up of a series of artificial islands and canals, with numerous large factories and warehouses on the river.
Beyond the Rathaus, Hamburg is loaded with architectural marvels of the 19th and 20th century that survived the Allied bombings.
www.tompgalvin.com /places/de/hamburg/hamburg.htm   (757 words)

  
 Articles - Hamburg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and with the Hamburg Harbour, its principal port.
Hamburg is situated on the southern tip of Jutland Peninsula, geographically centered a) between Continental Europe and Scandinavia and b) between North Sea and Baltic Sea.
Hamburg is the birthplace of the "Alsterwasser", a reference to the Alster lakes in Hamburg, which is beer shandy, a mixture of equal parts of beer and carbonated lemonade (Zitronenlimonade), wherein the lemonade is added to the beer.
www.sinoz.com /articles/Hamburg   (2503 words)

  
 Hamburg - Wikitravel
Hamburg is a major port city situated on the Elbe river in northern Germany.
Hamburg is a city-state; it values its status as a "free city", being as far as possible independent of other states that existed and exist in Germany.
Blankenese was a fishing village on the Elbe to the southwest of Hamburg.
wikitravel.org /en/Hamburg   (5582 words)

  
 Jasper - Tour description
Harbour tour—those words automatically conjure up a vision of launches gently moving across the Elbe.
That there are some highly unusual sights to be seen on the land side of Hamburg harbour is something we show our tour guests every weekend on the three-hour tour, 'Face to face with the giants'.
Hamburger Hafen und Logistik Aktiengesellschaft for its assistance and excellent cooperation.
www.jasper-hamburg.de /index.php?id=14&L=1   (242 words)

  
 Hamburg Hotels - Online Hotel Reservations in Hamburg, Germany
It is close to the harbour, musicals, and the train station, and only 12 kilometres...
The Motel One Hamburg resides in the district Altona, which is close to the harbour.
The Holiday Inn Hamburg hotel- Kieler Strasse awaits you close to the Color Line Arena, the AOL Arena and the zoo Hagenbeck, as well as to the famous Reeperbahn.
hamburg.traveleurope.com   (567 words)

  
 Hamburg Harbour
The Harbour area is enhanced by the fact that the Elbe splits into two separate streams the Norder- and Süder-Elbe or Northern and Southern Elbe, making a wide and natural harbour complex.
This is the real "foundation" of Hamburg and its sea-going, trading tradition, as one of the founding cities of the ancient Hansa trading league (with Lübeck in the lead in those days).
Despite being 4 hours steaming time inland from the North Sea, the thriving Hamburg Harbour is a deep water port, which is visited by many of the world's largest ships and is an ideal gateway to the markets of northern Europe.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/mikebailey1/HamburgArea/HH_Harbour.htm   (434 words)

  
 Hotels in Hamburg, Germany
The Grand Elysee Hamburg is located in the heart of the city, close to the lake Binnenalster, the Dammtor intercity railway station and the exhibition grounds.
The new 4-star plus Mövenpick Hotel Hamburg occupies a converted water tower in Sternschanzenpark, and is sure to captivate you with its unique atmosphere and prime location in the city's vibrant...
The Crowne Plaza Hamburg is located in a quiet residential area, near the Aussenalster (City Lake) and within walking distance to the city centre.
www.booking.com /city/de/hamburg.html?aid=305387   (351 words)

  
 Hanseatic Cities' offer at, on and in the water   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Harbour tours depart from the pier (Landungsbrücke) and take you through the historic Speicherstadt warehouse district, the largest warehouse complex in the world, or to nearby Blankenese.
Harbour tours, turns to nearby Warnemünde and boat tours through the Radelsee nature reserve are on offer all year round, while the city docks feature a colourful mixture of theatres, restaurants and historic boats.
The historic harbour in Wismar is home to a reproduction of a Hanseatic cog that sunk off the coast of Poel.
www.deutsches-kuestenland.de /en/Adventure_tips_Hanseatic/On_offer_at_on_and_in_the_water.php?id=1   (792 words)

  
 City Guides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Fischereihafen-Restaurant is known for its great seafood and harbour views, Friesenkeller serves genuine north German dishes and is very central, Alster Pavilion is a good place for brunch and Gourmet Station is a crowd puller for wurst and potato salad fans.
Hamburg is notorious for the sleazy Reeperbahn area.
The Speicherstadt area in Hamburg's harbour is a charming place for a stroll.
www.businesstravelerusa.com /cityGuides.php?cityID=129   (663 words)

  
 template - what you can do
At 16.00pm today, around 50 Greenpeace activists sealed off the Sietas Norderwerft dock in Hamburg harbour with sandbags to prevent further marine pollution from tributyl tin (TBT), which is used in ship's paint.
In Hamburg, the highest concentrations (40,000 micrograms per kilogram) were found near the Norderwerft.
According to estimates by the Hamburg authorities, 40 percent of the TBT pollution in the harbour comes from dock operations such as paint stripping.
archive.greenpeace.org /toxics/downtozero/updates/sept21.html   (427 words)

  
 STRÜB -The voice from the Pacific Northwest
Even for the average skater Hamburg Marathon is a little bit different from all other races in Germany: Precondition for a participation is a proven record of a marathon race time under 2 hours within the last three years.
Hamburg harbour currently is the 3rd biggest of Europe and ranks 9th in the world.
In Hamburg the people living along the route offer fl coffee instead of pick-nick tables for breakfast, but I did not see one skater stop for a cup (but many picked up at full speed the complimentary water bottles offered at km 10, 20 and 30).
www.strub.ca /april-newsletter4.htm   (2325 words)

  
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Most of Hamburg's tourist attractions lie within the town centre, with the Alsterfleet canal separating the Altstadt (old town) from the Neustadt (new town).
This area is home to Hamburg's famous landmark, Michaeliskirche, the largest Baroque church in northern Germany, with a history of fire and damage - photos and museum in the cellar and magnificent views from the top.
The Hamburg State Opera was founded in 1678 and has a world-famous reputation.
www.englishpages.de /hamburg/hamburg.htm   (1268 words)

  
 Music in Hamburg
It’s ballet under the direction of the US-American John Neumeier is considered undoubtedly as one of the world’s finest.
Since September 2005 Simone Young is the new chief musical director of the Hamburg State Opera.
Today it is known far beyond the borders of Hamburg for it’s light opera and other good popular musical representations.
www.tanimola.de /engl/musik.htm   (326 words)

  
 GREENPEACE SEALS SIETAS DOCK IN GERMANY ACTION TO STOP THE PERSISTENT POLLUTANT TBT
Hamburg -— Greenpeace activists are sealing a Sietas Norderwerft dockyard in Hamburg harbour with sandbags to prevent further marine pollution from tributyl tin (TBT), which is used in ship’s paint.
TBT concentrations of up to 40,000 micrograms per kilogram were found in the immediate vicinity of the dockyards in Hamburg.
In Hamburg, harbour mud with a concentration upwards of 250 micrograms per kilogram has to be disposed of on land as hazardous waste.
archive.greenpeace.org /pressreleases/toxics/1999sep212.html   (624 words)

  
 Foreign Students : Hamburg : Hamburg as a place of cultural interest
This appears to be, religion and education aside, the special root of Hamburg as a cultural centre.
Hamburg has served as a setting for international movies and also for production companies such as Realfilm (1947) and Studio Hamburg (1960).
Painters and sculptors were attracted by Hamburg, an inspiring place for their work.
www.uni-hamburg.de /fachbereiche-einrichtungen/fb03/erasmus/HH_Kultur_e.html   (418 words)

  
 Magic Cities - Hamburg
A trip through the ware-house city enables you to sense the atmosphere of what it was once like, sacks of cocoa, coffee and tea are stored here and you can smell the aroma of nutmeg and curry.
This most famous landmark of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg was built between 1751and 1762.
(Hamburg’s town hall) is a magnificent sandstone block edifice built in the Neo-Renaissance style (1886 - 1897).
www.magic-cities.de /pages/hamburg.html   (1128 words)

  
 TrekEarth | Hamburg Harbour Photo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hamburg is also known under the term "the door to the world" here in germany.
This goes back to former times when Hamburg with it's harbour was the only way for emigrants to go to the "new world".
In the harbour region, which makes out 1/10th of the total area of hamburg (75 square kilometers), there are working 40.000 people.
www.trekearth.com /gallery/Europe/Germany/photo99306.htm   (590 words)

  
 Student Travel Information & Discounts - Events: Hamburg Harbour (Landungsbrücken, Hamburg, Germany)
Discover Hamburg's Harbour on a Große Hafenrundfahrt boat tour, offered by the HADAG boat line.
Smaller boats cruise the older port areas, including the vast 19th-century brick warehouse district and the Alster, the park-like sheet of water at the centre of the city.
This encounter with the foundations of Hamburg's prosperity makes a fitting introduction to Germany's foremost media city and one of its most culturally dynamic places.
www.istc.org /sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=38277   (228 words)

  
 Postcards of Hamburg harbour in the 1930s - Cap Arcona - Wilhelm Gustloff - Robert Ley - Monte Rosa - St. Louis
The tunnel, 69 ft. (21 m) below the river level, connects the centre of Hamburg to the docks on the south side of the Elbe, though is today mostly a tourist attraction.
She was destroyed in an air attack on Hamburg in March 1945 and a few years later broken up in Britain.
After the war she was towed to Hamburg and used as a hotel until 1950.
www.timetableimages.com /maritime/images/ha.htm   (615 words)

  
 Travel Channel :: Destinations :: Hamburg:: Germany
Hamburg, largest of the medieval Hansa trading cities of the north, still looks to its immense harbour for both its image and much of its economic activity.
The Hamburg Ballet (with John Neumeier at the helm) hosts one of the country's highest-profile dance events, the Hamburg Ballet Days.
Hamburg celebrates its nautical birthday with one of the biggest harbour festivals in the world.
travelevents.discovery.com /sisp/index.htm?fx=location&loc_id=132789   (270 words)

  
 Motorola Mediacenter - Press Releases
Harbour workers in Germany are first to benefit from COMPACT TETRA technology to improve the handling of containers and stocking of goods
Harbour workers will benefit from the COMPACT TETRA technology which offers a reliable, resilient and high quality digital communications system.
The TETRA technology will be used by Hamburg Harbour’s cargo transloading facility and materials processing centre, to improve and streamline the handling of containers and stocking of goods.
www.motorola.com /mediacenter/news/detail/0,1958,1220_908_23,00.html   (391 words)

  
 OUT & ABOUT
We were privileged to be cruising on the Queen Mary 2 on their Fjords and Capitals tour, and Hamburg was our last port of call before returning to Southampton and our home in the West Country, England.
She was in Hamburg for 11 days from 8pm on the 8th November through to 6am on the 19th and was in dry dock during this time.
Hamburg's annual Harbour Birthday Event - always in May and reported to be the biggest festival of its kind in the World - Details - NEXT EVENT 2005
www.englishpages.de /hamburg/events.htm   (3048 words)

  
 Hamburg Passenger Lists 1850-1934
Separate indexes for both the Direct (the Direct Index) and Indirect Lists (the Indirect Index) exist from 1855 through 1910; for the period 1911-1914 and 1920-1934 there is a single index for both series.
The indexes for 1855-1914 are arranged by the first letter of surname of the head of household, then chronologically by the date the vessel left Hamburg; the indexes for 1920-1934 are in strict alphabetical order.
Another source that may be of use are the Reisepaß-Protokolle, 1851-1929, passport documents maintained by the Hamburg Allgemeines Polizeiliches Meldeamt, and held by the Staatsarchiv Hamburg, also available through the Family History Library.
www.genealogienetz.de /misc/emig/ham_pass.html   (3353 words)

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